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Horticulous Slimux

Epic Hero · 120 pts
Lists3% · in 5 of 159 public lists, September – November 2026
SimulateHorticulous Slimux against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Horticulous Slimux kills

Damage for its points

32pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 120 pts kill ~38 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything32bottom 8%
Hordes19bottom 1%
Line inf.26bottom 1%
Heavy inf. ★38bottom 10%
Light veh.34bottom 11%
Heavy veh.34bottom 18%
Units near it by SWORD

Across the game· melee units

Daemon Prince of Chaos Chaos Daemons · just ahead33
Horticulous Slimux 32
Chaos Cerastus Knight Acheron Chaos Knights · level with it32

SHIELD: how hard Horticulous Slimux is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

436pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 120 pts take ~523 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points436top 9%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Chaos Daemons

Horticulous Slimux436

Across the game· melee units

Avatar of Khaine Aeldari · just ahead437
Horticulous Slimux 436

What reviewers say

5 reviewers
  • Makes Beasts of Nurgle much better 2 of 5
  • His terrain stays in shadow 3 of 5
  • Value rises since objectives count as terrain 1 of 5
  • Expensive, with unimpressive melee 1 of 5
  • In no sampled winning list 1 of 5

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Horticulous Slimux120 ptsBBottom 8%Top 9%5of 159
The Masque of Slaanesh95 ptsABottom 9%Bottom 8%9of 159
Skulltaker85 ptsATop 27%Bottom 11%28of 159

Leading a squad

Leading Beasts of Nurgle200 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD3229
SHIELD436358

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Horticulous Slimux, 120 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.

SWORD

Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.

120 pts → kills ~38 pts → 32 per 100

SHIELD

Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.

~523 pts → 436 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 reviewers' newest Chaos Daemons tier lists: FattyMatty 40k (Demonic Mondays: his own verdicts and games, Plague Legion player) (26 Oct), Barnyard Wargaming (Daemons specialist: October team-event vlog and June first impressions) (26 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 4 winning lists and 14 summaries, 2 Oct to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), 40K Fireside (team New Zealand captain, Daemons player: three WTC lists) (3 Aug), Auspex Tactics (army tier list's Daemons segment, 23 Oct, and one strong list) (23 Oct), True Daemon Lord (Daemons-only channel: Plague Legion in 11th, preview rules before points) (12 Jun), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, largely carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

159 public Chaos Daemons tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 2 Nov.